Ekaterina Korbut
Ekaterina Korbut Valerevna (Russian Екатерина Валерьевна Корбут; born February 9, 1985 in Tashkent) is a Russian chess player.
Life
She learned to play chess at age nine and was trained early on by the Uzbek coaches and referees Sergey Pinchuk. She moved with her family and her coach when she was 13 years old after Oryol, then to St. Petersburg, where she began to study economics. There she was trained in the association of Marat Makarov and for tournaments IM Oleg Biriukov.
Achievements
Individual successes
In October 2000, she was in Kallithea (Chalkidiki ) at the European Youth Championships U18 third parties. In March 2003, she won the Russian Women's Championship U20, which took place in Essentuky in the North Caucasus, level on points before Natalya Pogonina. In December of the same year she won the Admiralteysky tournament in Saint Petersburg. In the Russian U20 Championship 2004 in Samara, she shared the first place with Natalya Pogonina. In November 2004, she was in Kochi in South India U20 Junior World Champion with a score of 10.5 out of 13 before Elisabeth Pähtz and the Indian Eesha Karavade. They secured the title until the last round, but remained unbeaten throughout the tournament. She was the first Russian U20 Junior World Champion since 1988, when Alissa Galljamowa won this item. In December 2006 it was clear to Gorodez, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, secure the Russian women's title.
Club teams
In the club they play for FINEK Saint Petersburg in the women's team, with which she won a silver medal at the European Championships in Izmir in 2004, and in the Serbian 1st league. In the club European Championship in Saint -Vincent, Italy in November 2005 she was awarded a bronze medal for her score of 80 % on the second board in an Elo performance of 2635th Also at Club Cup 2007 in Kemer she got a silver medal for their results of 71, 4%, this time on the first board (each for FINEK Saint Petersburg ).
National
In 2007, she was with the Russian women's national team, playing of board 3, second in the World Team Championship in Yekaterinburg. The European Team Championship in the same year in Heraklion won the Russian women's team with Korbut on the first reserve board while in addition an individual silver medal for her score of 5 out of 7 received.
Ratings and the
Your Elo rating is 2448 (as of November 2012), so that they would be in eighth place of the Russian Elo ranking of women; however, it is performed as inactive because it has played since the countries play China against Russia in September 2008, no -evaluated chess game more. The previous highest Elo rating they had with 2467 in April 2008, when she was 23, the FIDE world ranking of women. She wears since 2001 the title of Grand Master of the ladies ( WGM ) and has in the 2007 European Championship in Dresden meets the standard number for the title of International Master (IM ), which was conferred in June 2007.